05/16/2025
✨ “As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberated others.” - Marianne Williamson ✨
I’ve seen the ripple effect of this beautiful quote played out time and time again. It has been my calling ever since I was a little girl - quiet and shy and bursting to shine but always too afraid. Silencing, squashing, and holding back. They say that our greatest pains are our greatest teachers.
I love this beautiful and heartbreaking life. I’ve been humbled by darkness & misstepping just as much as I’ve been inspired by light & love.
From holding back & repressed
To being ‘sharp and in your face’ which made me silence myself all over again because of the shame that came from my loved ones scorn.
I don’t blame them. I understand. And I love them all, even the ones who still won’t talk to me or are hesitant with me. It’s difficult to accept when someone goes off the rails. It’s scary. It was scary for me too.
What they may not have realized was this was my journey in finding my voice. My process of becoming. It was brutal and it got messy. And it was completely necessary to break old patterns and chains that suffocated me. I was completely not okay and unhinged and that was the whole point. I was sick & tired of being so pleasant and “nice” and walking on eggshells to please. I needed to trudge through the mud and get absolutely feral and unpleasant & have people hate me.
Lotuses grow in the mud.
Now I’m practising moving & speaking with loving kindness & compassion.
I don’t always get it right and I’m always learning and growing and finding more balanced ways to pour into myself and others.
The ways in which the monks and nuns of the Buddhist tradition move and speak brings me to tears. So, it is with great honour that I receive the Dharma name: ‘Luminous Path of the Source’ from
I will continue to walk this path. To bow my head & raise my hands. To listen & to shine🙏
